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Coi'YUIGHT 1913 

By Los Angei.es Chamber ok Commerce 

THIS book not for SALE 

A COPY MAY BE FOUND IN THE PUBLIC 

LIBRARIES THROUGHOUT THE 

UNITED STATES 



Gits 
Publlsbef 

NOV '5 I8i8 



ENGRAVINGS BY B RY AN - BR AN DEN BU RG CO. 

PRINTING AND BINDING BY 

KINGSLEY. MASON & COLLINS CO. 



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The Chrnnher 'tf Commerce Com- 

tnUtee irliirli represented the City of 

Li>s Jiigihs in Washington, D. G.. 

i:>u,',, and so ably presented the need o i 

tlie ( 'ity:and the man who listened and gra.iped 

that need, and asked the Congress of the rnited 

States to grant it. Then the waters from the Sierra.-, 

became ours, and the Aqueduct was assured. 



1 Theodore Roosevelt, P?-esiden^, J.'/0.5- 

2 W. J. Washburn, Pres. Chamber of Commerce, luor, 

3 J. O. Koepfli, Chairmnn of Commit I er 



4 William Miilholland. Chief Engineer 

5 Frank P. Flint, Senator. I'.ior, 

6 W. B. Mathews, Aqueduct Atiormy 



Pronouncement 

THE dual celebration evidenced herein marks the com- 
pletion of two great institutions which are without 
peers in this or any other country. 

THE LOS ANGELES AQUEDUCT 

Not since the days of Csesar and the Roman Aqueduct 
has the world recorded engineering accomplishment aque- 
ductorial, equal to this great gathering of the waters from 
the snow-capped peaks of the Sierras and their conduct o'er 
mountain and plain for a distance of over two hundred miles 
to the Incomparable City of the Golden West — Los Angeles ! 

Eight years of ceaseless application of brain and brawn 
and twenty-four and one-half million dollars, constitute this 
heroic monument to the ability of man and the devotion of 
a people. 

The Los Angeles Aqueduct brings pure mountain water 
from the main range of the Sierra Nevadas, a distance of 
two hundred eighteen miles, across deserts and through 
mountains, in sufficient quantity to supply a city of two 
million inhabitants. It is a gravity system throughout, no 
pumping plants being required. It will deliver two hundred 
fifty-eight million gallons, net, every twenty-four hours, 
into reservoirs nearly one thousand feet above the city. 
The Los Angeles Aqueduct consists of ninety-eight miles 
of covered cement conduit, forty miles uncovered, twenty- 
one miles of open canal, twelve miles of inverted siphons, 
forty-three miles of tunnels through mountains, ten to 
thirteen feet in diameter, and four reservoirs along the line, 
each capable of containing three months' supply. This 
entire work was conceived and carried out by Chief En- 
gineer William Mulholland, assisted by Assistant Chief 
Engineer J. B. Lippincott and an able staff. 

The water power will be utilized in its descent of several 
thousand feet from its source in eventually producing one 
hundred twenty thousand horsepower, peak load, of elec- 
trical energy, which will be used for the City's light and 
power, and the sale of which will eventually liquidate the 
bonds and interest of both the aqueduct and electrical 
plants. 



The Los Angeles Aqueduct constitutes one of the largest 
engineering and water transmission accomplishments in 
the world. 

EXPOSITION PARK 

No other city on earth boasts an aggregation of educa- 
tional, athletic, amusement and military institutions equal 
to those contained in that charming area known as Exposi- 
tion Park, situated in the heart of the City of Los Angeles. 

A monument to the tireless, sacrificial devotion of one 
man to a principle. Exposition Park, an asset of the State 
of California, valued at three million dollars, stands today 
for a permanent exposition of the resources and industries 
of the great State of California ; it stands for the historical 
and art past, present and future of Los Angeles, and it 
stands for the military arm of our country ; for in this park 
are three great modern, fireproof buildings, each costing a 
quarter-million dollars, for the housing of these interests. 

Two athletic fields grace this park — one for children, cov- 
ering seven acres, and the other for adults, covering forty 
acres ; each to be equipped with appliances which mark per- 
fection in modern playgrounds. 

Here, too, are sunken gardens, fountains, a speedway 
unexcelled, grandstands, an area set apart for annual agri- 
cultural and industrial fairs, greenhouses and other fea- 
tures, built or contemplated in the plan for the installation 
of this Pride of Los Angeles. 

Two special days were dedicated to the ceremonies touch- 
ing the consummation of these two projects; the first in the 
beautiful San Fernando Valley at the mouth of the Aque- 
duct, where the water was turned on, for the first time, with 
appropriate ceremonies, and the second in the city, where 
special attractions were presented, making it so pleasant and 
profitable as to compel the tarrying of guests and visitors 
for a season. 

To the formal opening of these two great institutions we 
owe this opportunity of presenting you and the world this 
commemoration. 

LOS ANGELES CELEBRATION COMMISSION 



Secretary 



To the 
Los Angeles Chamber of Commerce 

A Tribute 

THE enduring, monumental works of history which 
mark the epochs of progress can ever be traced to 
some power great enough to dream, or grasp, a vision, 
and strong enough to give it being. Such great works are 
the Panama Canal and the Los Angeles Aqueduct, two 
world-famed engineering accomplishments which the year 
Nineteen Hundred Thirteen has given to history. 

The one, greatest of its kind in all history, is world-famed 
as the accomplishment of an incomparable Nation. The 
other now takes such place in history as the accomplishment 
of an incomparable City. It heralds a world of greater 
achievement and resulting glory. The ripple of its waters 
from the snow-capped Sierras will be, till time is not, a 
silver-tongued seraph, singing the praise of the Los Angeles 
Chamber of Commerce — that body of men known and writ- 
ten in every clime because of things accomplished — which 
nursed the infant thought, clothed it with the mantle of 
approval, shielded it from design, and failed it not in any 
hour of need through growing years of seeming vicissitudes. 

To no other agency is due equal thanks for this great 
work. 




1 Josepli D. Radford, Chairman 
2 Frank VVifjgins 

3 \Vm. M. Bowen 
4 F. B. Davison 



5 G. J. Kuhrts 10 A. J. Copp, Jr. 

6 Motley H. Flint • 11 Robt. Wankowski 

7 M. A. Hamburger 12 Perry W. Weidner 

8 H. Z. Osborne 13 F. J. Zeehandelaar 

9 M. C. Neuner 




A?id Behold.' A ncxc 
Light, beaming a Wel- 
come far out to sea, and 
over the City of Destiui/ 
fuljilled^ the Great 
Metropolis of the Great 
West — Los Angeles the 
Incomparable 




Exposition Park 

Los Angeles' greatest 
playground , flanked Inj 
the State Exposition 
Building, the State Ar- 
mory and the domed 
County Museum of Histo- 
ry , Science and Art 



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Thc Sierras 

Fro 111 ic h (' n ce co in c I li 
Los Aiigele.H icater, /ii<r/i 
up ill the Siernix, xclierc 
niilitre aerates and cools 
and pours her bounlij'u/ 
s upp lij of I ife -giv i « g 
xc/iters into the Aqueduct 
for the heali/ig oj' the ( 'iti/ 



Population 

Los Angeles is a race 
nol (I race suicide 



Our Grow 



1860 
1870 
18S0 
1890 
1900 
1910 



3.700 
5,728 
11.093 
50.395 
102.479 
319,198 



1911 (est.) 359.000 

1912 (est.) 427,000 

1913 (est.) 500,000 




4,000 
6.200 
20,000 
101.454 
170.298 
504,131 
554,000 
630,000 
725.000 




Pioneers 

These fitUhfitl , .sure fooled heasls icere l/ie Innisporliihoii 

solutioii to ol/ierTcixe inticeessihle disiriets alo)i>i the line 

of the Aqiiedmi, earrfing prorisions. -alter mid di/iiiimile 
before roads- icere biii/t 




The City oj 
Homes, hovietj 




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Great y« 

Concrete 

Flume 

This scene, xkou'in<r the 
great flume crossing ti 
gulch in the Jdicboue can- 
ifon , might he iaken for a 
riew ()f Ihe Roimiu Aque- 
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Building Permits 
-M-i-I-l i-o-fi-s-^ 

Los A ngeles ichlspered One Million 
in the ettrly ''90s. Later slu' talked 
^'Millionx" and kept it iipj'or ten 
years. NOW, she shouts in tens oj 
millions and d?-oicns all roices except 
Xeic York, Chicago, Philadelphia and 
Boston 





Inverted 
Siphon 

Our of the 
C e I (' V (' n ) 
great, leglcsx, 
crfiK'Iiug things ((tiled iiirer- 
led .siphons, first seen in a 
dream of the chief engineer, 
hut noic a realiti/, carrfmg 
pure mount ((in icaterfroui 
crest to crest, on and on, to 
the threshold of the Great 
Citi/ 




From the 
Mountains 
to the Sea 
in an Hour 

Where else do 

the cofifinex of 

II single hour 

compensate 

with a dip in the surj, 

a drive through a world 

^iffr " ' ' •* and flowers , 

under the influence oj 

limitless sunshine, to a 

hattle of snow bulls iimong 

the clouds? 




A section oj the cU'voi 
J'oot pipe of prosperity/ 
crossing Soledad (iin- 
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Postoffice Receipts 



UflC 


le Sam's verdict in the 


case 


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Los 


Angeles 
vs. 




The 


World 




Our Growth 




1890 


$ 97.75427 




1895 


177.911.04 




1900 


258.047.28 




1905 


719.023.13 




1906 


850,579.01 




1907 


1.039.547.51 




1908 


1.089.493.04 




1909 


1.276.664.07 




1910 


1,476,941.52 


1911 


1.646.601.84 


1912 


1.906,518.68 








The Udhcee 
Reservoir 

One of the Jour storage 
reservoirs, seven and one- 
half miles long xcith an 
average depth of forty- 
five feel, holding its part 
of a supply of icater for 
(I eitfi of one million peo- 
ple for a -whole year tcith- 
oul drawing upon other 
resources 



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Bank 
Clearings 

The Los Angeles 
Bank Barometer 

Our Growth 



1890 % 

1895 

1900 

1905 

1906 

1907 

1908 

1909 

1910 

1911 

1912 ] 



1 36,019,721 
57,046,832 
113.766,378 
479.985,293 
578.635.517 
581,870.627 
505,588,756 
673,165.728 
811,377.487 
943,963,357 

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Citi/ and Con fit// 
Roads 

Four hutidred miles oj'perfed 
roads lure the motorist to a 
ceaseless charm which lurks 
Ihrouirhoul the oraii<!:e, the 
olire, and the eucalijptus 
irrores, over axce- inspiring 
mountain ranges, into deep 
cant/ons, and alotig the sea- 
shore ()f Los Angeles Couuty 







1 PRINCIPAL APPROACH TO SM DIEGO EXPOSITION 





Weshcard the course of 
Empire'' hax a su-ay. 
Los Angeles, the Gate- 
xcuy to the great nine- 
teen Jifleeti expositions, 
has a movement all its 
oxen." dome and see! 




Siiiiil Peter's, Home, nor 
I lie Cathedral (It ('o/o<rne, 
nor i/et Solre Davie, hath 
the quiet, restful <rrau- 
deur (if the Missions of 
Southern Califoruia in and 
around Los An<xeles 




Oyr 
Parks- 

Four thousand 
restj'ul pa rk 
acres greet the 
hosts xcho cotne 
aud secandare 
conquered, annualli/, hi/ 
parks xchose semi-tropical 
frees and eternal xcear- 
ittfr of the green''' ooze 
health and happiness in- 
cessant h/ 



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